Among these are the projects of the Second Rolling Plan (RP2) under the Tenth Malaysia Plan; 2012 will see the first year of implementation of these. The RP2 will be allocated RM98.4 billion, with RM49.2 billion each for 2012 and 2013.

Under the RP2, the main projects to be implemented are the Gemas-Johor Bahru double tracking rail project, as well as a number of new expressways, these being the Lebuhraya Pantai Timur Jabor-Kuala Terengganu, Lebuhraya Pantai Barat Banting-Taiping, Lebuhraya Segamat-Tangkak and Lebuhraya Central Spine. Other core projects include the construction of the Kota Marudu-Ranau road and the redevelopment of the Sungai Besi KL air base.

On the Rural Transformation Programme front, an allocation of RM5 billion will be provided in 2012 to strengthen the development of rural basic infrastructure – of this, RM1.8 billion is set to be spent on the Rural Road Programme and Village-Link Road Project, which will build a 2,479 km-long road network which will benefit 1.76 million people in rural areas.

Meanwhile, the Pudu Raya Terminal, which is used by 80,000 people at any one time, has been renamed Pudu Sentral, following its complete facelift, which was carried out at a cost of RM40 million.

Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

are you stupid or what.. double track project basically is to lay down another line of track.

Currently there are only single track and it sound stupid if one track is 1000mm and another track beside it is 1400mm. Then, you need to different type of train to run on them. Unless we just dismantle the old track and change to 1400mm one and for all. However, the cost would be double.

I agree. Changing the entire train network to standard gauge is very expensive because we have to dismantle the entire network and lay back the new dual gauge tracks to support both standard-gauge and the existing metre-gauge trains. Plus, the entire rolling stock will need to be overhauled by changing their wheels to standard gauge type. Worst of all, Thailand will have to do the same thing as well, since we do have a train service running from Singapore (Woodlands) to Bangkok.

Goooottttt, who says don’t have. That Central Spine Road project runs from Kuala Pilah to Kota Bharu. It cuts through the Karak Highway. It runs along the Titiwangsa mountains. Alternatively, the 3rd phase of LPT also runs from Kuala Terengganu to Kelantan. Then, there are 2 more east-west highways in the pipeline.

The Central Spine Road IS a highway, with toll collection. Though from what I understand, MAYBE the stretch covering the state of Kelantan is not tolled. This I cannot verify. But the project already got the green light from cabinet, and expected to be fully completed perhaps around 2018. Maybe some stretches will be open first, we will never know.

Why don’t you do not migrate that far. Stay in Kelantan and develop the state? Yeah you earn less pay there but the total life cycle cost of staying away from your birthplace is so much higher. Socially, having family support reduces more cost than can be seen. Plus, if there were economic advantages that you could bring, Kelantan would lose out. Not to mention your own survivability. Every continuous hour you drive on a road increases the chances of accidents or worse. Multiply that with the qty of passengers in the car.

NOT EVEN 1% DEDUCTION IN CAR TAXES!
TIME TO VOTE THIS FATSO OUT OF OFFICE.
SO MUCH HYPE ABOUT MAKING LIVES EASIER,….IN THE END , HE JUST THROWS PEANUTS AROUND WHILE ADORNING FAT MOMMA WITH 70 MILLION DOLLAR RINGS

We spent substantial on double tracks. My question: do we utilize it or merely for the sake of “infrastructure projects”. Without clear and sincere direction and action, we’ll simply deplete our resources. What happen to Ipoh double track? Do you thing got adequate commuter wanna take train from Ipoh to Klang Valley based on their current salary? Is the current salary structure especially among private sector will guarantee the projects were FEASIBLE and VIABLE?

2. Most Kelantanese prefer to travel, weekend or festive seasons. Why not offer them solution for their traffic woes? Economically, it’s viale to give Kelantanese Bentong-KB stretch of expressway.

3. How about East Malaysians right of proper roads? Do they entitled or promised with better roads under new Budget?

nothing grand from the 2011 bdgt, i hv just google the crude oil price, it is abt USD82.87. Gomen claim that time when the crude price was USD97, actual retail should be RM2.75, with subsidy of RM0.80/l. Today when oil price is USD82.87, gomen still claim our retail price shud be also RM2.75, now with a subsidy of RM0.85/l. There world price already drop over 14%, simple mathematics. How come our actual retail still remains at 2.75? Why simple mathematics the gomen cannot calculate? This is totally bullshit, trying to hide facts n figures from us, the motorists. oledi tax the car ridiculously high, tax even the air inside the petrol tank, tax the number of nuts used in the car, tax the number of times u brake per hour, also tax the number of time u fart inside the car…. now come n tell us the subsidy is still o.85/l…. just wat the FU*K r u talking man…..

6 months? oh common!!! i thought they said they will “float” it according to world crude oil price. if 6 months, this will no way to benefit us. what if the crude oil drop to rm60 per barrel today and by the time the “6 months” come, the price of crude oil already climb up to rm100 per barrel. imagine of the crude oil price for the past month maintan at rm60/barrel. manyak lugi owh… sepatutnya bulananla… apa punya najis.

Your quoted price is based on a single day, or averaged out over 6 months or 1 year? Plus, different source of oil gives different price. Like the North Brent is more expensive than our Pak Arab oil. Maybe you should provide more detailed info, than providing a generalized comment. Sometimes we are so easily taken for a ride by somebody’s propaganda.

IMHO, it’s derivatives at play. It’s probably something similar to what airlines do.

What they do is make a forward agreement for a fixed amount of time (eg 3 months or whatever), with the seller to buy fuel at a fixed price. Irregardless of spot price ie market price that u see ie USD82 or whatever, they will still have to buy at the agreed price at start of agreement.

You may think revising every day is a good idea, but in our imperfect economy we only have recorded rising prices instread of lowering of prices. So if we lower the prices today by 10%, does it mean that your food and essentials will drop as well? They don’t. But when it rises by 5% these manufacturer will round it up to the nearest dollar.

The prices you see are the offical prices at the pump and no where near where people in the interiors of Malaysia are paying, so stop whining like a kid. People in the interiors of Borneo are paying double for everything with less than what you earn in the city and they have no options.

You want people to feel sorry and pity, I don’t think you deserve that when other people’s basic necessity like food and shelter costs double with half the salary. In Semenangjung you have options, nak lebih duit kerja rajin sikit, go to classes etc. Please stop whining…

What’s wrong having good railway? I think it’s awesome so that lousy drivers can gtfo from driving and what remains on the road are drivers who are truly passionate and respectful about cars.

I think anyone who barfs directly on me is more respectful to me than those Toyotard arseholes who never give fucking signal, cut queues, don’t give way, lousy parkers, and still show a smug face as if they’re God or something. I’m seriously pissed, I hate driving in Malaysia so much despite I love cars.

As a SME operator it has been hard managing rising cost. Labour has always been our biggest expense and now increasing employer contribution by 1% will hurt our bottom line even more. Good for employees….but if employers decide to close down, will be bad for them. Need to give a tax break to SME to offset the increase in contribution.

revised monthly for ron97, and every 6 month for ron95. real world price change quite drastic, some countries use weekly, and some even use daily price.
real price of ron95 isn’t far from ron97. only few cents. but this few cents is big amount to gov if you consider thousands of litre sold every day. i’ve read some articles, which mentioned that reduction on crude oil price doesn’t always reflected to lower pump price. price will drop only if the low crude price remain the same for days or weeks. it’s a complicated issue, mainly because it take days or weeks to import the oil, process it and deliver to end consumers.
to change the price every month would make people happy if the price is decreasing, but what if it increase? you’ll have to adjust to a new price of teh tarik and schoolbus fare every month too.

yes mr thinker, RM40mil for puduraya upgrade. now, before anyone bashing, pls go and see with your own eyes first. if you have old photo of puduraya, bring it and compare. go inside the toilet too! notice that floors and walls are completely changed. nothing like the old puduraya.
now, i donno if the cost is really that high, but u can see major improvement on it. if gov want to be transparent, they should reveal the itemised cost for everything to us.
but i don’t like it to hear that they going to spend hundreds of millions to repair parliament. we as normal citizen doesn’t get ‘direct’ benefit from that. and it hurts even more to see the MPs sleeping in parliament.

what if the government abolish all the tax for cars, but at the same time introduce tax exemptions for individuals/ companies who buy local cars. the tax also should be bracketed so that people who buy a more expensive car will get higher tax exemptions. but for this to work, i think local car manufacturers will need to have a very good middle to high end product so as to entice buyers who are in the higher tax bracket. maybe the economist out there can study the feasibility and it’s pros and cons.

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